AUGUST 20, 1963 -- While his wife and daughters were at a movie, several sticks of dynamite exploded damaging the home of attorney Arthur Shores. No one was injured, though a family dog was killed and another ran away.

Shores was in bed in the opposite end of the house at the time.

A riot nearly erupted after the bombing, with six people -- all black -- arrested for throwing rocks and bricks.

Police kept around the clock watch on the home of Birmingham Mayor Albert Boutwell after several threatening calls were made to City Hall.

"They are going to do to you what they did to Loveman's. They are going to kill you if they can," one caller said.

Several legislators said proposed bills to set up merger votes for several Birmingham suburbs had no chance of passing. Birmingham City Council Member Alan Drennen said he would draft new merger bills.

A jury awarded University of Georgia athletic director Wally Butts $3 million after he sued the Saturday Evening Post claiming he was libeled in an article alleging the 1962 Alabama-Georgia game was rigged.

"Money is not enough for what they have done," said Coach Bear Bryant.

President Kennedy was asked during a press conference if hiring quotas should be implemented because of the hardships black people faced during slavery and segregation.

QUESTION: Mr. President, some Negro leaders are saying that, like the Jews persecuted by the Nazis, the Negro is entitled to some kind of special dispensation for the pain of second-class citizenship over these many decades and generations. What is your view of that in general, and what is your view in particular on the specific point that they are recommending of job quotas by race?

THE PRESIDENT: Well, I don't think-- I don't think that is the generally held view, at least as I understand it, of the Negro community, that there is some compensation due for the lost years, particularly in the field of education.

What I think they would like is to see their children well educated so that they could hold jobs and have their children accepted and have themselves accepted as equal members of the community. So I don't think we can undo the past. In fact, the past is going to be with us for a good many years in uneducated men and women who lost their chance for a decent education. We have to do the best we can now. That is what we are trying to do. I don't think quotas are a good idea. I think it is a mistake to begin to assign quotas on the basis of religion or race or color, or nationality.

I think we get into a good deal of trouble. Our whole view of ourselves is a sort of one society. That has not been true. At least that is where we are trying to go. I think that we ought not to begin the quota system. On the other hand, I do think that we ought to make an effort to give a fair chance to everyone who is qualified, not through a quota, but just look over our employment rolls, look over our areas where we are hiring people, and at least make sure we are giving everyone a fair chance, but not hard and fast quotas. We are too mixed, this society of ours, to begin to divide ourselves on the basis of race or color.